Joan Baez Quotes
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I always think I'm going to record a lot on tour but it's always hard to fit it in the schedule, and there's a whole lotta' other extra curricular activities that happen on the road.
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I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
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I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
